Fence-post.



No. 674,23l.

Patented May l4, I901;

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(Application filed Oct. 80, 1900.) (No Model.)

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LAWRENCE H. BARRY, OF CALDWELL, OHIO.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 674,231, dated May 14,1901. Application filed October 30, 1900. Serial No. 34,960. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, LAWRENCE H. BARRY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Oaldand novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fence-post constructed in accordance with this invention and illustrating the manner of stapling fence-wires to it. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating an other means for attaching the fence-Wires. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view on the line was of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the fence-post, illustrating the arrangement of the perforations.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all-the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a hollow tapering fence-post designed to be constructed of burnt clay or any other suitable material, and the said post, which is preferably rectangular in horizontal section, as illustrated in Fig. 4t of the accompanying drawings, is designed especially for use in connection with wire fences, and in order to enable the wires to be readily secured to it it is provided with groups of perforations 2 and 3. The fence-post is not subject t0 decay and is practically unaffected by the weather, and the perforations 2 and 3 are arranged in pairs. The perforations 2 are horizontally alined and are adapted to receive a horizontal tie 4:, which passes through the fence-post from front to rear and which embraces and binds a wooden strip 5 to the front of the post. The ends of the wire are preferably twisted at the back of the post, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The wooden strip, which may be of any desired length, terminates short of the ground, and the wire ties may be arranged at any desired intervals. The wires 6 are secured to the Wooden strip by staples 7, which are adapted to be driven into the said wooden strip at any desired point, whereby the horizontal fence-wires may be arranged at any desired elevation and may be secured to the fence-post 1 with the same facility that they can be secured to an ordinary wooden post. 7

Instead of securing the horizontal fencewires to the fence-post by means of staples and the wooden strip the wires may be fastened directly to the post by means of wire ties 8, consisting of loopshaving their sides extended through the perforations 3 from the front of the post to the back thereof. The perforations 3 are vertically alined, and the wire of the tie 8 is doubled to form an eye 9 at the front of the post for the reception of the horizontal fence-wires, which are arranged as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings. The perforations 2 and 3 are formed in both the front and back of the post, and the wire ties extend across the space inclosedby the walls of the said post,

as clearly shown in Fig. 4. The front of the postis provided with transverse grooves 10, located in alinement with the horizontallyalined perforations and adapted to receive a fence-wire when the latter is secured directly to the fence-post.

It will be seen that the fence-post is practically indestructible, that it is adapted to be manufactured of burnt clay and analogous.

material, and that it will enable fence-wires to be readily connected to it. It will also be clear that wood railings or any other form of fencing may be secured to the post when the wooden strip is employed. Also instead of making the post tapered it may be of the same diameter throughout its entire length.

What I claim is- As a new article of manufacture, a hollow plastic fence-post, rectangular in cross-section provided at its front and back with registering groups of perforations, each group perforations and adapted to receive horizonconsistin'g of a pair of vertically-alined pertal fence-wires, substantially as described.

forations and a pair of horizontally-a1ined In testimony that I claim the foregoing as perforations adapted to receive a Wire tie and my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 5 capable of permitting the same to be arranged the presence of two Witnesses.

either in a vertical or a horizontal position LAVRENCE H. BARRY for securing a fenee-wire or a wooden strip to the fence-post, said post being also provided Witnesses: at its front with horizontal grooves arranged H. W. GEORGE, IO in the same plane as the horizontally-aimed P. H. BARRY. 

